The Toronto Maple Leafs have been very successful at the top of the draft.
If you look at the Sabres, who had a similar amount of high picks but whiffed on a couple, you can see how drafting high isn’t a guarantee of success.
But if you look at the teams that have been successful over the last decade, you can see that there is one thing they all have in common that the Leafs are missing.
Namely, as I wrote a couple of weeks ago, the Toronto Maple Leafs are missing an elite player who was picked lower in the draft.